Centos 6 puppeteer docker image

docker image with Google Puppeteer installed for Centos 6 only

If you can, please use Centos 7 or higher cause Centos 6 is EOL. Otherwise you can use this tool for Centos6.

Repo is based on Google Puppeteer and docker-puppeteer

before install

Make sure you upgraded your Centos 6 to latest:

rpm -Uvh https://www.elrepo.org/elrepo-release-6-8.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm
yum clean all && yum update
reboot

After check version:

cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 6.10 (Final)

Install Docker 1.7.1-1:

yum install https://get.docker.com/rpm/1.7.1/centos-6/RPMS/x86_64/docker-engine-1.7.1-1.el6.x86_64.rpm

Add docker to startup:

chkconfig docker on

install

docker pull gergokee/centos6-puppeteer:latest

before usage

1. You should not pass --no-sandbox, --disable-setuid-sandbox args when launching it, only if there is no other way, when you need to run it as root (which is not recommended).

const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');

(async () => {

  console.info("Starting browser");

  let browser;

  try {

    browser = await puppeteer.launch({});

  } catch (e) {

    console.info("Unable to launch browser mode in sandbox mode. Lauching Chrome without sandbox.");
    browser = await puppeteer.launch({args:[
        '--no-sandbox',
        '--disable-setuid-sandbox'
        ]});

  }

  console.info("Browser successfully started");
  console.info("Closing browser");

  await browser.close();

  console.info("Done");
  
})();

2. If you see errors like "ERR_NETWORK_CHANGED", write your script to check the output of it and make a loop till the output is not generating errors. Unfortunately the problem is that IPV6 needs to be turned off. And because latest docker for Centos 6 is docker v1.7, you are unable to pass the necessary flag: --sysctl net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1

3. add --enable-logging for chrome debug logging http://www.chromium.org/for-testers/enable-logging

const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');

(async() => {

    const browser = await puppeteer.launch({args: [
        '--no-sandbox',
        '--disable-setuid-sandbox',

        // debug logging
        '--enable-logging', '--v=1'
    ]});
    (async () => {

  console.info("Starting browser");

  let browser;

  try {

    browser = await puppeteer.launch({args: [
        '--enable-logging', '--v=1'
    ]});

  } catch (e) {

    console.info("Unable to launch browser mode in sandbox mode. Lauching Chrome without sandbox.");
    browser = await puppeteer.launch({args:[
        '--no-sandbox',
        '--disable-setuid-sandbox',
        '--enable-logging', '--v=1'
        ]});

  }

  console.info("Browser successfully started");
  console.info("Closing browser");

  await browser.close();

  console.info("Done");
  
})();

usage

mount your script to /app/index.js

docker run --rm -v <path_to_script>:/app/index.js gergokee/centos6-puppeteer:latest

custom script from dir

docker run --rm \
 -v <path_to_dir>:/app \
 gergokee/centos6-puppeteer:latest \
 node my_script.js